What could human engineers possibly learn from the lowly slime mold? Reliable, cost-efficient network construction, apparently: a recent experiment suggests that Physarum polycephalum, a gelatinous fungus-like mold, might actually lead the way to improved technological systems, such as more robust computer and mobile communication networks.
What I find interesting is that at macro level humanity behaves no different than a slimemold. If we treat humanity as a whole as an organism, with individual humans as individual cells, then its behavior is pretty simple. It extracts resources and creates paths to channel them towards its main body. When we see cities and roads from space, it’s basically just a giant planetary sized slime covering the globe.